RNA origami technique folds nanotubes to create artificial cytoskeletons for synthetic cells
With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...
RNA Origami Used to Make Artificial Cytoskeletons
With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural RN ...
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Newly developed methodology breaks molecular symmetry to back one theory about life's origin
"By means of a desymmetrization process that breaks the planar symmetry, we have converted them into elementary synthetic blocks of more complex molecules," explained her thesis supervisor Reyes ...
Synthetic genes can build intracellular structures in a modular, IKEA-like fashion
Researchers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy have developed ...
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Scientists one step closer to re-writing world’s first synthetic yeast genome, unravelling the fundamental building blocks of life
This work is fundamental to our understanding of the building blocks of life and has the potential to revolutionise synthetic biology which is fitting as Manchester is the home of the Industrial ...